Arguing God from Being?

This ontological and much-debated argument for God's existence claims that a 'Perfect Being' must exist because 'existence' is a perfection. The newer 'Modal Ontological Argument' claims that if a 'Necessary Being' could conceivably exist - in any possible world - a Necessary Being (being 'necessary' by definition) would have to exist.

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